Campus IT leaders are responsible for providing a view of the technology changes that are coming over the horizon and a vision of where the "ship" of IT should be headed. The retiring EDUCAUSE president offers ten nautical maxims for charting this course for higher education IT.

In the spring of 2005, I was asked to keynote the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The conference theme was "Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology in Challenging Times." What that brought to my mind was the era of the great sailing ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a topic that has always held great interest for me. So as I sail into the sunset, I’d like to update that presentation and offer ten nautical maxims for charting the course of higher education IT in the twenty-first century.